US Patent Issued to KRONES on Sept. 1 for "Container discharge apparatus for discharging containers from a mass-flow conveyor and for separating the containers, and method for operating the container discharge apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,906, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Container discharge apparatus for discharging containers from a mass-flow conveyor and for separating the containers, and method for operating the container discharge apparatus" was invented by Christian Depner (Silberstedt, Germany), Jens Luecke (Flensburg, Germany) and Niels Clausen (Dollerup, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container discharge apparatus for discharging containers from a mass flow conveyor and for separating the containers, the apparatus comprising the following: adjoining a mass flow conveyor, a first group of a plurality of first...